The Edward L. Creamer Papers consist of one memoir titled "A Dogface in Alaska: Surveying and Surviving," with digital print copies of 190 photographs. The memoir details Creamer’s experiences as topographic computer with U. S. Army’s 551st...
(5:56 min.) (01 of 12) Background and arrival in Alaska Auburn University--TVA heavy construction--B. B. Tally Construction quartermaster--Ladd Field construction Jan '41-- Four total projects Ladd Field, Ft. Richardson, Elmendorf and Yakutat &...
Title from verso. Photograph of a Civil Defense team as they move cargo destined for aid and reconstruction after the 1964 earthquake and tsunami. Full caption from verso reads: "HQ AAC -- HEAVY CARGO -- Civil Defense members of the...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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Title taken from back of photo. "HQ [Headquarters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- Heavy Cargo -- Civil Defense members of the earthquake stricken community of Seward strain to shift some of the heavy cargo airlifted into the area by men and...
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ [Headquarters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- Poles Arrive -- Airlifted in to the stricken community of Seward, Alaska, telephone poles were hustled into the city to replace those downed by the earthquake. The...
Title taken from back of photo. "AAC [Alaskan Air Command] --Damaged Hospital -- The 7 story USAF Hospital Elmendorf sustained minor structural damage during the Good Friday Earthquake. Shown here are cracked exterior curtain walls, which bore...
Title taken from back of photo. "Elmendorf Slide Area -- A portion of Bluff Road on Elmendorf AFB 'slipped' down the hillside during the Good Friday earthquake. Here, Base earthmoving equipment lines up in preparation to tackle the job of...
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- Warehouse goes down -- Listed as a total loss by Elmendorf AFB engineers, this supply warehouse went down during the havoc-creating Good Friday earthquake which struck...
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- Warehouse goes down -- Listed as a total loss by Elmendorf AFB engineers, this supply warehouse went down during the havoc-creating Good Friday earthquake which...
Note with photo reads: "HQ [Headquarters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- Over 20 Air Force vehicles and men from Elmendorf AFB, along with a multitude of civilian volunteers spent several days shortly after the Good Friday earthquake assisting...
Title taken from note with photo. . "California Air National Guard unloads supplies at Elmendorf AFB [Air Force Base], following the Alaska Earthquake 3/28/64".
Title taken from from photo. . "HQ [Headquarters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- BASE DAMAGE -- Damage to Elmendorf AFB [Air Force Base] may reach as high as 10 million dollars in the wake of the Good Friday earthquake. Here, a portion of a...
Title taken from note with photo. . "California Air National Guard unloads supplies at Elmendrof AFB [Air Force Base], following the Alaska Earthquake 3/28/64".
Title taken from back of photo. . "HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- EMERGENCY FACILITIES -- The parking lot and bachelor noncommissioned officer's quarters at the USAF Hospital Elmendorf saw a lot of activity during the week of...
Title taken from back of photo. . "HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- AIRLIFT IN ACTION -- An Air Force Military Air Transport Service (MATS) C97 from the California Air National Guard is swiftly unloaded of supplies brought to...
Note with photo reads: "Four members of Elmendorf's 5040th Supply Sq. [squadron] shift cases of supplies from a damaged warehouse to an undamaged area. (They are from left to right: A2c Thomas Bedell, Tsgt. James R. Ramsey A2c Richard Blanks, and...
Note with photo reads: "Members of Elmendorf's 5040th Supply Sq. [Squadron] begin to dismantle shelving in a damaged warehouse, EAFB [Elmendorf Air Force Base] Alaska, following the Alaska Earthquake 3/28/64".
Note with photo reads: "HQ [Headquarters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- FIRST BOX -- The first box of toys to be flown into Anchorage for distribution to needy Alaskan children displaced by the Good Friday earthquake is unloaded from an Alaska...